Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-09-09
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Opening of the Fall Term Last Monday
Improvements in the Buildings

The fall term at all the public schools
opened last Monday and the indications are
that that there will be an unusually large
attendance. y considerable number of
children who have heretofore attended
private schools, have made arrangements
to enter the public schools this term and
Il large number of nonresident pupils will
also attend. 1t is probable that the school
buildings will be crowded to their utmost
capacity and it may be found necessary to
transfer pupils from one district to auoth-
err in order to accommodate them. Dur
ing the summer the usual inciden-
tai repairs have been made on all the
school property. Especial attention
has been devoted to the sanitary
condition OF the buildings and in
this respect the condition of the High
school, Pine street and North and Murray
streets schools has been improved Elk
tensive improvements have been made at
| the Pomeroy and Adams schools. At the
! former Out-buildiugs have been removed,
fences rebuilt and the grounds which
had been badly washed out filled in and
| tastefnlly graded. At the Adams school
the Ruttan-Smead warming ana. ventl-
lating apparatus and dry air closets have
been introduced Six months trial of
this apparatus in the POmeroy school was
so satisfactory that the school Board
thought it advisable to continue this line
of Improvement. These two buildings
are now regarded by the Board as en-
| tlrely satisfactory as regards heating and
ventilation.
Following is the roll of teachers:
High School-Principal, :. W. Landon; first
assistan.. Elizabeth VI. Benedict; second as
| sistHnt, Ellie Moore; special assistant, Annie
| Il. Smith.
Grammar school-Principal Mary f. Wells
first assistant, Mary f. Collins second assist
| ant, Sarah \. Martin.
Grammar Annex-Te ichcr Ellen II Villas.
Pine Street intermediate Principal Angie
NJ. Burns; first assistant, Marion b. Boyle :;
second assistant, Lillian Il. Coyne.
PometOy Principal, Emma j
Chapman first assistant. Clara ii Lawrence :
second a:sis'ant, Elizabeth Morrison.
AtamS -PuuCipH, Minnie l.
| Baldwin assistant, Hattie X Andrews.
- North aud Murray Streets Intermediate
| Teacher, Kate Lowrey.
Pine street Primary -PiuCipal Nary X
Cole; first assistant, Jessie Griswod second
assistant, Susie c Lee.
Pomeroy Primary Principal, Lottic NJ Bur
nett first assistant, Mary Brinsma.d; second
assistant, Clara Atwatrr.
Adams Prmary-Principl Mary j Mayo ;
llrst assl;tun, Ailctta Brown; second assist
ant, Addie TrOmDicy.
North ana Murray Streets Primary-Princi-
! pal. Frances Messenger first assistant. Mary
L kelton; second assistant, Josephine NJ Ar
| cand.
| Falls School-Primary and intermediate
Grades-Principal, Marie VI Graves; assistant,
Catharine johnson.
North AYenue-Prlmary, Intermediate and
Grammar Gradcs-Teacher, Hattie b Nor.
| throp.
Main Street Primary-Teacher, Cornelia c
Teacher of Vocal Musc-H l. Walker.
Supervisor of Drawing-Mary f Wells.
a very few changes have occurred in the
corps of teachers, there being but three
new names in the list. OF the new
teachers Miss Coyne is a graduate of the
State normal school at Albany, n. y. The
other two, Miss Andrews and Miss
TrOmbley, have had successful experience
in teaching in this State. In the High
school the teachers remain the same as
| last year, but in the Grammar school Miss
Mary f.. Wells, who has been connected
with the public schools II years and who
has for several years filled the position of
first assistant in that school has been pro
noted to principal. Miss Collins, who
has been connected with the schools about
the same length OF time as Miss We Is
and who has been second assistant will be
| first assistant, and Miss Martin, formerly
principal of the Adams intermediate, has
been promoted to the position of second
assistant Nearly all the principals of the
schools have had normal school training
and long eXperienC. in teaching, and the
Others have won their positions by the
| excellence of their work. 1t is the desire
of the board that the people of Burlington
and especially the patrons of the schools
make themselves acquainted with the
| teachers and familiar with the
methods of Work III the schools
so that they may obtain some idea Of
what the schools are actually doing for
the city. Our schools are not exhibition
schools, but the aim of the school author
tiles has been to do honest conscientious
WORK and to produce symmetrical devel-
opment of the pupils, They have aimed to